10,000? 20,000? 30? Philip doesn't know how many movie trivia questions he's written in the last 15+ years, but if he had to take a guess he'd probably say it's at least twice as many as he can remember. That's what happens when you inhale too many marker fumes as a child. One of the questions he's often asked is why he stopped drawing.

His right hand is mostly to blame. Think of the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, and then try to imagine it/him and his men as monsters. That won Philip an award at a local high school art show, but it could have (and should have) been even better than it was, and that bothered him.

Putting pen to paper as a writer seemed like the way to go. His first attempt was a series of Star Wars-inspired, short stories written (and drawn) for his kid brother with a cast of characters made up from whatever toys were lying around the house. Sound familiar? To this day, Philip swears that his garbage man was related to the Lasseters.

Album reviews for fanzines, multiple attempts to launch a fanzine of his own and song lyrics inspired by some of the bands he was

guests. That's how many insects reside in the average home according to a recent study. When he figures out how to get rid of those, he'll let you know.

Alien: Covenant

Annabelle: Creation

Stephen King's It

Unless you're a zombie or some carnivorous monstrosity that feeds on Hypothalamus glands. If you know anything about evolutionary biology, you know why Dr. Green's (Penelope Ann Miller) initial idea to kill the creature in The Relic would have worked. Of course, we're assuming you don't.
Put your knowledge of all-things that creep, slither and crawl to the test with the only movie monster survival guide/quiz book of its kind. What will you do when they come for you?
Live and learn. Learn and live!

After graduating from the City College of New York in 1987 with a Bachelor's degree in Commercial Art, Philip didn't know what he wanted to do, creatively and/or for a living until he caught the movie trivia bug, which he still hasn't given any credit to. That could be why it refuses to leave his brain. For now at least, it seems to be a happy, if not healthy, symbiotic relationship.

How a few (thousand) not-so-simple trivia questions really did come together and where they came from is chronicled in the first volume of the book that took Philip and Robert Freese (13 Frights, A Place of Dreams and Nightmares) four years to write.

Philip currently lives in Carmel, New York with 10,000 uninvited house-